A penny for my thoughts, oh no I’ll sell them for a dollar / They’re worth so much more after I’m a goner / And maybe then you’ll hear the words I been singin’ / Funny when you’re dead how people start listenin’. -“If I Die Young” – The Band Perry

The thing that I love most about summer break (I taught summer school so I’m technically just starting summer break) is that if I can’t sleep I can stay up as late as I want and doodle all the fuck I want. I hear all the time “teachers have it easy” lol but we NEED these weeks off to recharge after dealing with your children. At the end of the year a kid told me “you’re just a fat white bi*** who can’t get a man.” This was a 5th grader. AND I teach in a “good” school lol. That’s just the average fifth grader these days… I love my job but I’m going to get as much therapeutic painting in as I can before school starts.

Medium: Watercolor, Mixed Media

Text: With every hour that passes / I try to tell myself / What I know / That nights are only ashes / Of days gone by burned / Black and broken-Lisa Hannigan “Lo”

Starting a few new projects. Hamsa hand drawing, mural on pantry door, and patchwork curtains. I don’t really sew, so we’ll see how that goes lol. The wall decals on pantry door will be relocated – not part of the mural.

I did this a few weeks ago when I got on a Tori Amos kick and never got around to posting, though I can’t remember why now. I used to be obsessed with her music, I miss the love affair I once had with her lyrics… My new life mission is to listen to her again more frequently.

Medium: Watercolor

Text: When you gonna make up your mind / When you gonna love you as much as I do / All the white horses are still in bed.